Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13
THE HOME.
A COLUMN OF HINTS AND FACTS
FOR LADIES.
Housekeeping in Revolutionary
Times-Care of the Children
Home the Best Place.

Times-Care of the Children
Home the Best Place.
| The season is at hand when the NOR
tality among children is topic of remark,
but when that season comes remarks are of
little use. The mischief is often done long
before the effect appears. Parents say,
when advised to give their children plain
and simple food, and to deny them stimu-
lating drinks like tea and coffee: "Oh,
nothing hurts my children; 1 let them
have whatever is on the table" In the
cool months this may seem to be the case.
Boys stuff themselves with indigestible
food day after day without showing any
signs of being injured, and then in the dog
days suddenly collapse without any special
cause. 1t is with the children as it is with
us, their elders-the punishment of their
errors is long delayed. They weaken their
digestion in the winter and die of it in
August. The time to regulate the diet of
the young is all the time. Physicians who
practice in the populous parts of cities
have often remarked that the mortality is
greatest Just when most precautions are
taken, and when the children themselves
are afraid to eat improper things They
have been wrong fed for eleven months
their digestive apparatus has been daily
overwrought its reserve of force is all ex-
pended. Then comes long hot term, and
we are appalled, by the news of hundreds
of deaths day among the children of a
few wards.-New York Ledger
DISTINCTIVE TYPE OF AMERICAN
BEAUTY.
When the people of the United States
shall be deprived Of the constant influx of
foreign blood from Europe they will finally
develop into fixed and regular American
type. This popularity will have as its
distinguishing characteristics slenderness
of form, disposition to great muscular ac-
tlvity, extreme nervous sensitiveness, re-
markable quickness of intellectual appre-
hension, and a general alertnesS. These
are, to great extent, the characteristics
of the American Indians, and when the
white race shall become thoroughly local
lied in North America it will conform to
the type of the Indians in their chief phys
ical qualities. That the whites who have
been in America for a few generations
have already begun to assume the Indian
| type of bodily confguration has repeatedly
been recognized and declared by compe
tent psychologists and anatomists The
artists who are ever alive to the peculiari-
ties of form have not failed to notice that
a certain slenderness of figure has become
so far characteristic of the Americans that
it is never omitted in any pictorial repre-
| sentations, and the typical Yankee of the
caricaturist as well as the typical South
erner is always shown as a tall, slen-
der, muscular, nervous parsonage 1t
may not be out of place to add to the tes-
timony of the psychologist and the artist
on these points that of the commercial man,
which is fully corroborative of their OBJ
servations. An importer of French and
German gloves said to the writer that such
articles intended for the American trade
had to be manufactured expressly, because
the hands of the Americans are longer in
proportion to breadth than those of the
typical French and German people, and
the fingers as rule are longer and more
slender
Enough has been said to show that there
will one day be characteristic type of
form for the American people, and that
there will in consequence be type OF
American beauty. Already the American
women are being recognized as the most
beautiful in the world. The uncrowned
queens and untitled princesses from the
United States are, by the force of their
charms, rapidly winning titles and social
supremacy among the Old World aristoc-
racy. But the American women are only
in the infancy of their reign in the realms
of beauty. They are to have their charms
recognized throughout the civilized world
as the queens of loveliness and what the
| Egyptian women were to the world for
many centuries two to three thousand years
ago the American women will be in the
future.-NeW Orleans Picay,ne.
CHILDREN's FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS.
Parents, who because of the noise or con-
fusion and disorder children-more es-
pecially boys-create, refuse to allow their
children to entertain their friends at home
deserve no pity if in after life they realize
that the paths of sin are the paths chosen
by them, and if disgrace falls upon them
the only ones who deserve a pitying
thought are the ones that commit the
crimes. By closing the doors of the home
| upon thS NouiS anu
their children had chosen, they sent them
into the street to meet and entertain them
there. Home should never be too fine nor
too poor for the children's friends. By
having them i'll our homes we can see who
are worthy and who unworthy, and warn,
advise and soothe
As some one has wisely said, this being
done, there will be fewer instances of girls
eloping with unprincipled, good-for-noth-
ing men, hence fewer divorces or of boys
becoming criminals and ending their DAYS
in prison, shut out from the sympathy and
love of their fellow creatures for defyine
the laws of God and man. 1t is not suffi-
cient that children have good clothes, num-
berless playthings, choice food, soft beds
and handsome rooms in which to live. The
young require more than this-more than
education and wealth, and yet what they
require is that which the poor as well as
the rich may give them-a pleasant home
| Therefore, first and last, make home pleas
ant.-Clereland Leader.
THE CHILD's MIRROR.
"The mothers face is the childs mir
ror," and very early the little one learns
to look in this for appreciation of its every
word and action From this mirror does
the child learn, long before it can speak,
its first lessons of right and wrong In the
mothers arms it lies just beginning to no.
tice. In fit of petulance the little hand
is raised to strike; a reproving look comes
over the mothers face; the tiny hand falls
without striking, the little head ncstles
closer, and into the baby eyes comes a
grave and thoughtful expression. Baby
has received its FIRST lesson and is reason
ing as only babies can. Little by little
other lessons are learned in the same way.
until to the child the mothers face is the
criterion of its every word and action.
If mothers would more fully realize this
truth they would hesitate and think many
times ere bv laugh or sign of any kind they